She also asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, this small amount is very small. Can you try it by tying it? Only when it is burned can you finally determine whether it is made by aged mugwort leaves." The shopkeeper agreed readily and asked his apprentice to take the fire note and light the small mugwort that Gao Xi picked up again. After it was burned, the smoke from the aged mugwort velvet burned was not pungent. The smoke was not black, but light white, and the smell was very fragrant.
After these four steps of inspection, Gao Xi was very sure that the ten-year-old golden velvet provided by the shopkeeper was indeed aged velvet, and it was the finest among the aged velvets. However, this small bag was too small, and there were only three rolled velvets at most, which was too few. Gao Xi asked the shopkeeper again, "Do you have a small bag of aged velvet here? It's okay to have a lesser year, but it's okay to have five years."
"There are still some of the five-year vintages. The number of the five-year vintages is a little more. This small bag is only fifty taels. How many bags do you want? Miss?"
"You give me ten bags, 20 taels per bag?" Gao Xi felt the price was a bit expensive again and continued to bargain. In the end, the boss agreed to the price after she cut it out, considering that she bought a lot of mugwort clovers.
Xiao Xingtao and Cui Youyou were amazed at the same time. Only such a small amount of mugwort leaves was about 500 taels, which was really profitable. They were thinking about whether to harvest mugwort leaves in the wild. However, after returning, the lady asked them to make mugwort velvet for a month and then changed their minds. The hundreds of taels and one small bag of aged gold velvet is really inexpensive. It takes so many complicated processes, and it is appropriate to collect hundreds of taels.
The three of them bought mugwort leaves. Xiao Xingtao carefully held two boxes of aged golden mugwort velvet, while Cui Youyou carried two large bags of mugwort leaves. The two large bags were not particularly heavy, because the dried mugwort leaves were very light.
Manager Zhang gathered at the agreed location according to the agreed time. Gao Xi asked the two little maids to carefully put down the Ai Ye, and turned to remind Manager Zhang, "Uncle Zhang, thank you for your hard work, I have been waiting for you for a long time. We will go to the bookstore to buy some rice paper back next time."
Manager Zhang responded and drove the car quickly to the bookstore.
"Miss, you finally remember to practice calligraphy? But Miss, you don't know a few big characters, and you haven't hired a gentleman yet. How do you practice after buying paper?" Xiao Xingtao was very puzzled why Gao Xi bought paper and practice calligraphy. For so many years, she has been with the lady. She has never seen the lady hold a pen, so why did she practice calligraphy? Last time the lady was writing a plan, she was curious, but she never asked. Now she saw the lady buying paper again. I was really curious. When did the lady learn to recognize and write.
Gao Xi was covered in black lines again. How can this silly girl fully believe it? "I picked up a book called "Thousand Character Classic" at my uncle Zhuangzi's house in the countryside, and I learned it myself while you were sleeping." Only Xiao Xingtao and Cui Youyou believed this excuse for misleading. The bookstore was not very far away, and it came soon. The topic ended. Gao Xi let out a long sigh again. Fortunately, Xiao Xingtao asked for a question, otherwise it would be difficult to resist, and it was difficult to tell why she suddenly recognized and wrote. This was all the time she learned to learn after returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion in the last life and went to Huangfu Wenjing to enter the Women's College.
, How could it be explained clearly in this life? In the last life, she spent so many years in the countryside, without anyone teaching, and didn't know any big words, let alone writing. She just entered the Women's College, and was often ridiculed. She had no appearance and was fat, but she didn't have any ink in her belly. She couldn't keep up with the teacher's rhythm in class. Because her handwriting was sloppy, she could only grit her teeth and practice hard, but she couldn't meet the high requirements of her husband, and she just barely wrote the words into one word. So what she got in the end was not the encouragement and praise from her husband's classmates, but the unanimous contempt of everyone.
Shaking his head, Gao Xi woke up from his chaotic thoughts. Several people went to the bookstore to buy some rice paper and went back. When they returned to the back door of the mansion, they gave the guardian some silver rewards according to the custom. Several people went back to their yard with laughter. They came back in the afternoon, swaggering and small bags. Qiu Xiang and Dongyue who were staying in "Lanyuan" naturally knew. They didn't dare to ask where Gao Xi went again, but these big bags of things must have been brought back from outside.
Come, did the second lady go out without reporting to the elders? Their thoughts were circulating. They couldn't keep up with energy and did anything in the messy yard of "Lanyuan", and they were even more afraid of being thrown out like a piece of cloth one day. Today, they finally caught the second lady's mistake. As long as the second lady was punished by the master or the old lady for this matter, they would have made contributions in front of Wen. However, the primary task was to find out when they went out and where they went out.
Qiuxiang and Dongyue both started to move their minds and actions. They didn't dare to ask Cui Youyou. Cui Youyou was very good at martial arts and had great strength. What should I do if one of them was unhappy to chop her up? So they both went to pester Xiao Xingtao and asked her. While Xiao Xingtao was alone in going to the cottage, they asked her what was the big bag and whether it was delicious. Xiao Xingtao rolled her eyes and said angrily, "It's not delicious, but what exactly is it, what does it have to do with you two?" Xiao Xingtao was also warned by Gao Xi again. She was not allowed to have a big mouth or reveal any information in their room to Dongyue and Qiuxiang. No matter how stupid she was, she knew that Qiuxiang and Dongyue were not on the same boat. They looked down on her little Xingtao's IQ too much. Why didn't they ask Cui Youyou, do you think she was easy to bully?
Gao Xi didn't know the inquiry between Qiuxiang and Dongyue, so she didn't care about this. She felt that it didn't matter if others knew about going out, it didn't matter if they went out to do bad things, and it didn't matter if they were told about it. Whoever complained about it was unlucky, don't believe it, wait and see. Xiao Xingtao came back angrily, "Miss, are they bullying me stupid? They asked me for information, and asked me what I went out to do, where I went out, and do I think I was stupid? Why don't they dare to ask you or Cui Youyou, and choose honest people to ask."
Gao Xi and Cui Youyou looked at each other again, and couldn't help laughing out loud with a "puke" sound, "Who made you look so honest and so easy to bully? If you don't ask who you ask, would you go and ask Uncle Zhang to ask Madam Bai?" Xiao Xingtao was unhappy and mumbled with an unhappy look.
Chapter completed!